On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions > can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emergency, > but you would not normally want to do this as your mirrors will get out > of sync.
So if one disk fails I can take out the other disk and put in an other machine and mount the partitions? And everything should work? > > Why can't one put a filesystem on it before the raid process? > > The horse goes _before_ the cart. :) Rudy -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web page http://www.webworm.org GNU/Linux user and Savannah hacker http://savannah.gnu.org Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]